Quotes About Wanton

Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein in the allegedly renegade NSA and its wanton depredations of American privacy.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Even if religion did no other harm in itself, its wanton and carefully nurtured divisiveness—its deliberate and cultivated pandering to humanity's natural tendency to favour in-groups and shun out-groups—would be enough to make it a significant force for evil in the world.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

To say that Nikolas Rokoff is a devil would be to place a wanton affront upon his satanic majesty.

I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.

Hot off the presses, today's headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways," Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. "Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.

And buxom, which means only obedient, is now made, in familiar phrases, to stand for wanton; because in an ancient form of marriage, before the Reformation, the bride promised complaisance and obedience, in these terms: I will be bonair and buxom in bed and at board.

Nothing like a little wanton destruction to get boys excited, Thorn thought, smiling to himself.

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.

And you have lost none of your wickedness either.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

Tsk, Tsk, Sunshine. I believe I have a wanton wench on my hands. Unfortunately for you, I'm in control here, not you.

A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow

Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.

This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery.

In almost every artist nature is inborn a wanton and treacherous proneness to side with the beauty that breaks hearts, to single out aristocratic pretensions and pay them homage.